Lot description

Details

A pair of important cloisonné enamel vases
Meiji period (late 19th century), each signed Kyoto Namikawa (workshop of Namikawa Yasuyuki; 1845-1927)
Each vase of tapering form with short neck, decorated in polychrome cloisonné enamels and gold and silver wires with four panels designed with birds, butterflies and flowers of the four seasons on a light-blue ground, each panel surrounded with stylized scrolling flowers on a black ground, the shoulder designed with two dragons and two pairs of birds facing each other on a yellowish-brown ground, the mouth rim and base enameled with a floret pattern, signed on a silver tablet mounted on the base; gilt rims
12 in. (30.5 cm.) high each

Provenance

Acquired by previous owner’s parents in New York in the 1950s

Sale room notice

Please be informed that the pair of vases sold in Christie’s Zurich originally from the Avo Krikorian collection, is not in the Khalili Collection as stated in the catalogue note of this lot.

Quoted from the lot page, © Christie's. Christie's, An Inquiring Mind: American Collecting of Japanese and Korean Art, 2015-04-22, lot 127 ↗